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How to be a Senior Software Engineer

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December 09, 2017
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How to be a Senior Software Engineer

Talk I gave in PosaDev 2017, a few tips on how to get better at doing software

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Orlando Del Aguila

December 09, 2017

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Transcript

  1. How to be a Senior Software Engineer

  2. Orlando Del Aguila

  3. 01 Care about your craft

  4. 02 Understand your tools

  5. 03 Stop Hype Driven Development

  6. 04 Have a definition of ready

  7. 05 Know your limits

  8. 06 Learn to say no

  9. 07 Learn to make trade-offs

  10. 08 Understand your work’s impact

  11. 09 Define the problem you are solving

  12. 10 Learn about other areas related to your work

  13. 11 Increase your Google-fu

  14. 12 Writes less code

  15. Thanks